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Extinct genus of fishes
Platysiagum
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†Platysiagum sclerocephalum
Egerton, 1872
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Other species
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†P. minus Brough, 1939
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†P. sinensis Wen et al., 2019
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Platysiagum is an
extinct
genus of prehistoric
bony fish belonging to the
family
Platysiagidae. Fossils are known from the
Middle Triassic of China, Italy and Switzerland, and the
Early Jurassic of England.
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See also
References
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b Wen, W.; Hu, S. X.; Zhang, Q. Y.;
Benton, M. J.; Kriwet, J.; Chen, Z. Q.; Zhou, C. Y.; Xie, T.; Huang, J. Y. (April 2019).
"A new species of Platysiagum from the Luoping Biota (Anisian, Middle Triassic, Yunnan, South China) reveals the relationship between Platysiagidae and Neopterygii". Geological Magazine. 156 (4): 669–682.
Bibcode:
2019GeoM..156..669W.
doi:
10.1017/S0016756818000079.
hdl:
1983/67be3458-c375-4742-b7b0-22e52c7b5040.
ISSN
0016-7568.
S2CID
134097409.